The primary challenge for an urban bus system is to maintain constant headways between successive buses. Most bus systems try to achieve this by adherence to a schedule; but this is undermined by the tendency of headways to collapse, so that buses travel in bunches. To counter this, we propose a...

In insurance two major types of cycles are known: (a) regular many years long up- and down-swings referred to as underwriting cycles and (b) irregular short-range fluctuations. The key rationale of the underwriting cycles is migration of insureds triggered by the insurers’ price competition...

In this paper, an Internal Model Control (IMC) scheme is incorporated in production inventory control systems in a complete supply chain. This control scheme presents a good target inventory tracking under the perfect knowledge of the system. Furthermore, the inventory tracking and load...

In recent times, sun tracking systems are being increasingly employed to enhance the efficiency of photovoltaic panels by constantly tracking the elevation and azimuth angles of the sun. In this paper, a novel adaptive digital signal processing and control algorithm is presented that optimizes...

The objective of this paper is to present a survey on extremum seeking control methods and their applications to process and reaction systems. Two important classes of extremum seeking control approaches are considered: perturbation-based and model-based methods.

We address the problem of control and synchronization of a class of uncertain chaotic systems. Our approach follows techniques of sliding mode control and adaptive estimation law. The adaptive algorithm is constructed based on the sliding mode control to ensure perfect tracking and...